Steve Gibson is the best owner in football. It's been written so many times, it simply has to be true.

Yet not since Freddy Shepherd's Newcastle heyday has any manager been sacked with such bizarre timing as Gareth Southgate - just an hour after Middlesbrough had beaten Derby to move within a point of the top of the Championship.

If Southgate's successor, Gordon Strachan (above), was half as clever as he thinks he is he'd be Bill Shankly. And then Gibson really would have proved himself to be the best owner in football.